Heights Board Backs State Library Law

THE SUN PRESS
May 1, 1969
Heights Board Backs
State Library Law
The Cleveland Heights-
University Heights Library
Board of Trustees at its
meeting last week adopted
a resolution endorsing Senate Bill 262 which revises
Ohio's library laws to provide for statewide library
development.
For two years more than
2,000 librarians and public
library trustees have been
working on a plan to develop Ohio's 259 public librar-
i e s through multi-county
area library service organizations.
Bill 262 was introduced in
the Ohio Senate April 10 by
Senators William W. Taft of
Clevland, Oliver Ocasek of
Akron, Max H. Dennis of
Wilmington, and Robert T.
Secrest of Cambridge.
SPONSORING THE legislation is the Ohio Library
Association, of which Sarah
I. Cody, director of the
Clevland Heights-University
Heights library, is a member of the executive board.
The proposed legislation,
the first major revision of
library legislation since
1947, provides the basis for
long-range improvement in
library services to every
resident of Ohio, and better
use of existing library and
information resources
throughout the state.
The bill also makes provi-
s i 0 n for information networks that will link all libraries with major research
collections in Ohio's metro
politan, university, and special libraries.
Local library officials say
that similar library development is in progress nationally, notably in New York,
California, Illinois, Maryland and Pennsylvania, but
Senate Bill 262 is unique in
that it takes into consideration the varied regions of
the state.

Click tabs to swap between content that is broken into logical sections.

THE SUN PRESS
May 1, 1969
Heights Board Backs
State Library Law
The Cleveland Heights-
University Heights Library
Board of Trustees at its
meeting last week adopted
a resolution endorsing Senate Bill 262 which revises
Ohio's library laws to provide for statewide library
development.
For two years more than
2,000 librarians and public
library trustees have been
working on a plan to develop Ohio's 259 public librar-
i e s through multi-county
area library service organizations.
Bill 262 was introduced in
the Ohio Senate April 10 by
Senators William W. Taft of
Clevland, Oliver Ocasek of
Akron, Max H. Dennis of
Wilmington, and Robert T.
Secrest of Cambridge.
SPONSORING THE legislation is the Ohio Library
Association, of which Sarah
I. Cody, director of the
Clevland Heights-University
Heights library, is a member of the executive board.
The proposed legislation,
the first major revision of
library legislation since
1947, provides the basis for
long-range improvement in
library services to every
resident of Ohio, and better
use of existing library and
information resources
throughout the state.
The bill also makes provi-
s i 0 n for information networks that will link all libraries with major research
collections in Ohio's metro
politan, university, and special libraries.
Local library officials say
that similar library development is in progress nationally, notably in New York,
California, Illinois, Maryland and Pennsylvania, but
Senate Bill 262 is unique in
that it takes into consideration the varied regions of
the state.